The Winery Cellar Door 320 Angas Plains Rd, situated in the Langhorne Creek wine area, is a must…read morevisit. The winery has won some prodigious awards, Cellar Door with Best Foods, Australia's Best Cellar Door, Cellar Door with Best Food Langhorne Creek. We were seated in an undercover purpose built alfresco, this is a very large area with great views over the vinyard and Plains. We enjoyed from a very good menu, two large homebaked steak pies, with salad and fries. Our choice of wines from the wine list was a sparkling chardonnary, mixed Sauvignon Blanc, and a very soft pleasant tasting smooth 2009 Emily Cross Shiraz. We found the service excellent and informative. Totally a very relaxing Australia Day experience. Accomodation is available on request. Highly recommended.

I still can't work out how I found out about this place but I am glad I did. We went up one lazy…read moreSunday afternoon for wood oven pizzas as once a month they host a Sunday pizza lunch (visit the website to find out when). The service was great and we were welcomed to the winery like we were family. We sat outside and enjoyed the beautiful view as well as getting to watch our pizzas being made fresh in an epic wood oven. Not your standard pizza toppings but they were very yummy - we had the marinated lamb and smashing pumpkin! The pizzas were delicious and it would be remiss of me to mention that the wine was delightful. I'd suggest booking, it got pretty busy pretty fast.

Great Wines in the Adelaide Hills, Just outside of Mt Barker is this little gem of a Winery. Not…read morejust your everyday wines. The staff believe in healthier sustainable bio-dynamic wines (keep an eye out for sheep in the vines as you drive to the Cellar Door. What is also great about this place is their regular 'Last Sunday of the Month' Lunch. Most often they serve up some tasty Organic Wood Oven Pizza, but there are also other occasions, such as the annual Feral Feast. If you aren't doing anything one Sunday and love some great wines, it's well worth the short drive (especially for the last Sunday of the Month)

I am so glad that there are people out there who sit and wonder how different foods would go…read moretogether! This has to be one of the best experience of taste that we have had in a while and we like to eat The view from the deck is fantastic and the wine pairings work very well. The 3 course menu is plenty to eat and be sure and try the watermelon desert.

We visited this delightful winery as part of a private wine tour with Taste of South Australia…read more Unlike tasting rooms in the states, this one was no charge. We tried a wide variety of their wines including: -Verdelho - excellent fruity white wine -Rose- light red and tastes of raspberry -Little demon blend ( cab+Malbec) - delicious raspberries and chocolate - Malbec - very dry, fruit forward - K.i Shiraz - tastes of the sea (our least favorite) - Lime cave cab -typical big cab, earthy - Eocene ancient vines Shiraz -balanced and rich - really good. Prices at the winery were very reasonable ranging from $23-$40 per bottle. The quality of the wines could easily support higher prices if they were available in the states ( which unfortunately they are not ). Super friendly people round out this great spot. Recommended.

Lime cafe is one of the few 'boutique' places you can go in this small country town that doesn't…read morepurely serve steal schnitzels and fish and chips. The place itself is painted a very lurid 90s green (lime green) with lovely timber floating floors and hosts a small amount of table inside and outside with metal and wooden chairs. The seating sadly detracts from the place and gives an atmosphere of dining in a fish and chip shop. The menu is basic eclectic and really hasn't changed in years. Everything can be takeaway. Infact the presentation of the food is deli like in a small window. They also sell unique food at high prices. Don't get me wrong nice stuff like vegan chocolate just very pricey. We ordered the fish cakes and soup (minestrone) which came with salad and garlic bread. Both meals were very nice (I am used to a big bowl of soup for 9.90) and my soup was quite small and sadly was mainly pasta and not much veg. But it was very tasty as was the garlic bread. The tuna cake was again a bit expensive for what it was but again very nice. The staff are lovely if a bit 'older' I definitely felt I was in an old persons town. The service was friendly as most small town restaurants service is but a tad slow. However as we wernt in a rush we didn't have a problem. I would recommend for coffee and a nice meal however if you want somewhere comfortable to sit avoid this place. Atmosphere 6/10 (chairs) food 8/10 service 7/10

Had to wait 40 minutes for scrambled eggs and a piece of bacon and a further 15 minutes for a juice…read morewhile everyone else who came in after us were getting served their food first, when my mum told them she wanted a refund so we could go someplace else thats when they brought our food out and it was cold, one waitress was very aggressive when I told her we were waiting for 40 minutes for just 2 scrambled eggs and a piece of bacon she went on the defensive, it's also very expensive it cost $81 for 2x scrambled eggs and bacon 1x frittata and salad and 3 juices that's it that's all we ordered and it cost us $81 so BEWARE the prices and long wait times and cold food and aggressive waitresses.

A beautiful winery. Must make a reservation. Some of our favorite wine. A nice relaxing tasting…read more Great staff. One of the best.

As you pull off of McMurtrie Mile into the driveway of Hugh Hamilton Wines you're met with a series…read moreof "Sheep Dips". What's a "Sheep Dip" you ask? Good question. They didn't look like something that could keep sheep from getting away, like a cattle grid. How is a shallow dig meant to stop a sheep? And where were these sheep? All I could see was miles of vineyards. Perhaps the dips were to keep the sheep out? Nah, that couldn't be it. The cellar door at Hugh Hamilton is akin to a vine-cloaked spaceship. It stands quite alone amongst a sea of vineyards with the southern Mount Lofty ranges spanning far into the distance. It's a truly beautiful part of the world and the cellar door surely positioned for one of the best views in the district. We're greeted by a lovely tanned lass with a slight British accent. We didn't catch her name. We're after something red and bold for dinner. (Well, with dinner. Not for dinner. Although...) We started on the "The Ratbag" merlot. It's got more edge than most merlots I have tried. The "faintest hint of toasty oak on the finish" says the tasting notes. (Like I know what I am talking about.) We move onto the "The Rascal" shiraz. Yup, that's what we're after. "Mulberry and black pepper" to go with the mushroom and sauerkraut pierogi we've lined up for dinner. (I have no idea if these things go together. They do now.) Over the next 15 minutes we worked through the range. One bottle to take home turns into four. Hugh Hamilton wines aren't sold through stores so the only way you can buy it is from the cellar door, their website or their wine club. In addition to exquisite vino they sell a range of olive oils, preserves and dukkah, and merchandise. There is a distinct "sheep" theme throughout. Perhaps Hugh is a New Zealander? We couldn't help but ask "What's with the Sheep Dips signs?" Apparently Hugh was the black sheep of the Hamilton family. So the dips couldn't just be called dips. They had to be sheep dips. And that explains the sheep theme infiltrating the entire brand. Sheep. I don't quite get it, but that's okay because the wine is beautiful. As is the location. Do yourself a favour and support small wineries like Hugh Hamilton. Wine is so much more exciting when you travel to beautiful places to sample and buy it.

Looks like a pretty new cellar door. They give you a little snack with the tasting. Some nice…read morewines. Great service! Very beautiful outside.

Wine minus the wankery…read more That's what I tell people when they ask me what I thought of BoB. Organically grown grapes, 3 farm dogs and a cottage cellar door that I want snuggle up in with a nanna rug and a bottle of their Puritan Shiraz. Lou and Bozzie are a couple well seasoned winos. You can tell they love every ounce of what they do, are totally au fait with wine wankery and choose to ignore it and instead serve up bottles of organic whites, reds and a new rose and moscato under the Battle of Bosworth and Spring Seeds brands. This cellar door must have one of the best views in Willunga and if you are lucky enough to get a day when Lou is working you'll get to know every in and out of the region, their wines and what they do. It's small though so don't plan to bring your hoard of 40 on a hens day here. BoB is a treat and I can tell he and I are going to hold a close acquaintance in the future.

We have been buying the Spring Seeds organic and preservative-free wines for quite a while now, but…read moredidn't realise that it was produced here, at Battle Of Bosworth in Willunga! This is such a beautiful location - from the tree-lined street on the way in, the ruin out the front, to the gorgeous cellar door itself - this is a truly wonderful place. Jock and Louise are very passionate, knowledgable and charismatic, and really made the visit an even better experience. The three gorgeous winery dogs didn't hurt either! We ended up buying a couple of bottles of Battle Of Bosworth wines, as we haven't tried anything under that label before. We will definitely be back to sample and purchase more, that's for sure!

Sea & Vines Festival on the June long weekend is a plethora of food & wine events in the crisp…read morewinter air of McLaren Vale. Some of these events are big - very big - and you find yourself sharing the experience with hundreds of others. Some are more modestly sized, so you can still have some one on one time with the winemaker and cellar door staff. Dowie Doole specialise in these more intimate events. So far we have been to a Pulled Pork day in December 2013, a Raclette & Petanque day at Sea & Vines 2013, and now this special Raclette & Wine day as part of the Sea & Vines 2014. Dowie Doole wines is on California Rd in McLaren Vale, on the way to Willunga. Three friends, Norm Doole, Drew Dowie and Leigh Gilligan joined forces with winemaker Chris Thomas to run the business. One of the newer wineries, the tasting room opened for seven days a week trading in December 2013. The beautiful modern tasting room sits overlooking an estate vineyard to the north, with a lovely green lawn edged with native gum trees, full of local birds. The green provides an ideal surface for playing a round of petanque. In partnership with the Smelly Cheese Shop's Lulu Lunn, freshly grilled authentically French raclette cheese was offered with a plate of cheese friendly extras for $15. Lulu and her trusty French raclette griller were churning out bubbled, hot, crunchy slathes of delicious cheese. We opt for a bottle of the G&T - not gin and tonic - but Grenache and Temparanillo, two of McLaren Vale's most well suited varieties. The G&T is a medium bodied drop, with red fruits on the nose including spicy ripe strawberries. A nice structure complemented the roundness of the rich cheese, and good balance meant the wine didn't overwhelm the wine, nor the wine the food. A raclette plate has a variety of tastes, temperatures and textures. Crunchy pickled onions and cornichons, hot melty cheese, fresh baguette, and meaty charcuterie. It takes a well balanced drop to stand up to that kind of variety. The scale & creativity of Dowie Doole's events, and the integrity of their wines and food partners, all means we'll be back - again!

Beautiful winery located amoungst the trees in McLaren Vale. Enjoyed a yummy chhese board filled…read morewith lots of local cheeses and fruit n nuts. Nice relaxing atmosphere.